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Timely to get an email about this post since I was just in the process of updating my Pinterest "Kitchen Inspiration" board! :-)

you could enter this entire space in the "Room for Color" contest, too! LOVE it!

impatiently waiting for my rhubarb to grow! i checked it on Tuesday night and it's barely 2 inches tall thanks to our cool spring!

my style is like Mlle. Cara's - colour with pops of neutral and cozy all the way!

the apt i shared in Ottawa with my sister. it was in a 1970s concrete monolith with horrid windows but it was 3 bedrooms and 2 baths and we had a HUGE balcony that wrapped around the entire unit - 43 feet long on one side, 27 feet on the other. one door leading out from the living room and one from my bedroom. from May to October we all but lived out there with a massive garden-in-the-sky.

the best part was the view from our 19th floor unit; straight up the Rideau Canal to Parliament and the Laurentian foothills beyond. we often had dozens of guests at our Canada Day parties and for flight-watching during the balloon festival.

i moved to Canada's London 7 years ago for work and my sister moved to a place closer to her office near the Supreme Court.

the day i moved, i stood out on that balcony in the brilliant sunshine of a frigid February morning looking at the canal crowded with skaters; i think i cried for the first 100 km of the 700 km drive across southern Ontario.

much nicer than my breaking down and getting an Ikea Bygel rail!

oh, i hope so! that gives me 2 and a half more years to get my house "together"! :-)

yes, please to polka dots! :-)

unfortunately, i am away through Sunday and won't accomplish any tasks for the remainder of the week. however, i did buy an organizer for my sewing/crafting area that will free up shelves for books - books that are still in boxes since i moved 4.5 years ago. while unpacking, i can figure out which to keep and which to take to the reseller.

i am picking up the hardware for my Ikea Rast dressers at Lee Valley Tools this weekend! beautiful ring pulls and fancy corners to dress them up after lacquering them in black! :-)

i agree with Lilly; my closest Ikea is 90 minutes away, but there is one within a 5 minute drive of my mom's house and i get her to take me there nearly every time i go to Toronto.